Board of Education — January 15, 2026

>> I call to order the regular meeting of board of education, Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 4 pm with Svantes, Cruz, N Shaw, and and Smith present. Patricia, are there any requests from the public to speak on closed session items prior to the board adjourning into close session? Thank you. We will now adjourn to close session regarding the following

matters which are all described in detail on the printed agenda. Conference with legal council anticipated litigation. Four possible cases. Conference with legal counsel existing litigation. Three cases. Student discipline matters. Conference with labor negotiators. ACT and CSEA negotiations. Public employee appointments. elementary school principal, assistant principles and high school assistant principles, public employee discipline dismissal release and public employee performance

evaluation for superintendent. Thank you. I now reconvene the regular meeting of board of education at 6 pm with Cvantes Cruz N Smith and Shaw present. Before we begin, please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded. Patricia, >> the board amended closed session from 400 pm to 5:36 p.m. regarding congressman legal council anticipated

litigation four possible cases conference legal council existing litigation three cases student discipline matters conference with labor negotiators ACT and CSCA negotiations public employee appointments elementary school assistant principal principles and high school assistant principles public employee discipline dismissal release and public employee performance evaluation. The board took the following action by unanimous votes of 50 with Cervantes Cruz no Smith and Shaw voting yes.

Appointed Aaron Starks as assistant principal at Cortez Elementary School. Effective date to be determined. Appointed Cynthia Okamoto as assistant principal at Glenme Elementary School. Effective date to be determined. Daniel Montinees as assistant principal at Oakgidge Elementary School. Effective date to be determined. Appointed Mara Ryan Lopez as assistant principal at Donogo High School. Effective date to be determined. No further action was taken

which requires public disclosure. >> Thank you, Miss Patricia. And now we have our pledge of allegiance. Mr. Svantes, can you please lead us in this pledge? >> Thank you, Mr. Cvantes. And now we're on to our staff's report regarding the LCAP. Good evening, President Shaw, members of the board, Superintendent Enfield, cabinet, and community. Our report to the board this evening is on the local

control and accountability plan, also known as the LCAP. The report offers a midyear snapshot of the available data alongside our expenditures and the implementation level of actions outlined in our current LCAP. Our existing LCAP consists of four goals. Tonight, we will only report mid-year progress on goals one and two and their associated metrics, actions, and services. LCAP goal one states all students are

provided a high quality teaching and learning environment. The metrics for goal one are considered local metrics and are reported tonight as met in progress or met within a specified time frame. There are six annual measurable outcomes to evaluate our progress of goal one. As you can see, we have currently met the desired outcome on five and technology

refresh will be completed in April 2026. To measure our progress on teachers with a clear credential, we use the state's teacher assignment and monitoring outcomes report. We are above both the state and county average for teachers with clear teaching credentials and we have met our desired outcome for facilities in 2526. We are happy to report that 100% of facilities receive a

good or higher rating as measured by the facilities inspection tool and we have met our desired outcome. Standards aligned materials in 2526 100% of schools reviewed have sufficient textbooks and instructional materials according to the Williams site reviews and we have met our desired outcome. Implementation of state adopted standards is occurring in all of our classrooms and we have met

our desired outcome. Our goal is that all teachers and students have access to updated technology that is four years old or newer. This year with the LCAP funds that have been allocated for technology, we are able to upgrade, deploy, and replace devices for teachers and students in grades kindergarten, 5th, and 9th. All teachers have at least one

computer or laptop provided that is four years old or newer. And again, we will meet this outcome in April when the refresh is complete. Enrollment in a program course of study. Students in grades TK through 12 have access to and are enrolled in appropriate courses and we have met our desired outcome. There are 15 actions identified for LCAP

goal one. On this slide, you will see the first nine actions. Column one indicates the actions budgeted, then estimated actuals through midyear, and the last column reflects our implementation level for each action. The last column will show fully implemented or partially implemented. Partially implemented indicates we are in process and those actions will be completed by the end of the school year.

For action one, our human resources staff has and continues to attend recruitment fairs to recruit and attract new staff members to our district. Action four, purchases are planned that will allow for the continued use of some of our current textbooks. Action five, purchases are planned once the pilot phase of the instructional materials has been concluded. Continuing on with actions in goal one, action 12.

In the 2526 school year, there have been over 6,000 student devices refreshed again in grades kindergarten, 5th, and 9th. Action 13, our instructional technology program. This is done through our exploration committee who provides recommendations on technology resources that will support our classroom teachers. Action 14, deferred maintenance program, addresses routine maintenance items to keep our facilities in good standing.

Action 15, over 200 teacher devices are being refreshed this year. LCAP goal 2 states students, parents, families, and staff are connected and engaged to their school to ensure student success. The metrics for goal two are also local metrics and are reported tonight as met, in progress, or to be determined with a specified time frame of when that will occur.

Graduation rate for the class of 2025 increased and we have met our desired outcome, but we still continue to work to get more students to meet the requirements. It's also important to note that our requirements in Chino Valley are more rigorous than other districts. We require four years of English, three years of math, and a 2.0 gradepoint average. Yet, we continue to

be higher than the state graduation rate. Year-end attendance for 20125 increased and we met our desired outcome. Chronic absenteeism has decreased by 1.7% and we have met our desired outcome. Suspension rates have decreased and we are in progress with this metric as well as in progress with our metric for expulsion rate. Dropout rate for high school has

decreased. However, it's important to also note that this percentage also includes students that may have moved out of the state or country yet we have met our desired outcome. Our school quality survey will open on Tuesday and we encourage everyone to participate when that opens. The state reflection tool for parent engagement will be completed and determined in May.

Following are the actions identified for LCAP goal 2. On this slide, you will see the first 10 actions. For action number one, the family engagement center continues to provide trainings to parents and staff. As we continue on, action 11, our supplemental education covers district interventions, which includes credit recovery for our high school students. Action 17, our hope resource center

serves families in our community with basic necessities. Action 19, our community day school at Chino Valley Learning Academy, where we are able to maintain small class sizes and staffing to allow personal connections to support students with significant needs. For action 20, there is a foster youth counselor for all foster students in the district. Action 23, other means of correction

training. Although there is a 0 amount, this action still occurs within existing staff within our organization. Action 24. This action allocates support staff to address the needs of students with significant behavior related needs. And this completes our midyear update on LCAP goals one and two to the board of education. >> Thank you so much. Board members, do you

have any comments, questions? If you do can use your light. I'll give you a second. Go ahead. Mr. Cruz present. Just press the button. >> Hold on. >> Yeah. I just wanted to share that you know there there you know based on what you just stated there strong implementations in in support areas like bus home bus us

transportation chronic absentism counseling service intensive student support behavioral mental health support suicide prevention safe school programs intervention counselors all fully implemented. So that's that's excellent. Also you mentioned the youth survey, the parent survey which will it'll be shared in May. >> The results will be yes the survey will open on Tuesday >> and during that time that's when parents

could do could provide feedback and then change things that need be. >> Thank you. >> I think that's it. Yeah. Oh, thank you. And parents, please turn in your surveys because obviously you have staff that needs those results. So, thank you very much. Okay, we're now on to comments from our student representative, Mr. Phoenix. >> Good evening, board president Shaw,

members of the board, Superintendent Enfield, and distinguished guests. At the start of this new school year or sorry, new semester, ILA has been working hard to recognize their winter sport athletes as well as their seniors through sporting events and senior nights. At Chino High School, they are currently preparing for their winter rally spirit week, which will be next

week along with their Stranger Things rally. The school will also recognize students who achieve perfect attendance throughout the first semester. Don Lugal recently held their winter rally, which had a Fast and Furious theme. Because their gym is still undergoing renovations, it was held outdoors. Despite the change in location, the rally ran smoothly and they noticed that student participation and spirit was

noticeably higher than usual. They also recognized winter sports here. At Chino's high school, seniors participated in a senior recess event where the class of 2026 were able to play nostalgic elementary school type of recess activities. All the students that were not seniors attended a motivational assembly with speaker Keith Hawkins, which was wellreceived. We have currently we we have currently

been working with athletics to celebrate winter sports senior nights and are hoping to create posters and banners in support. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you very much for those updates. And now we're on to our comments from our employee representatives. Do we have anybody from ACT? >> No. Danny Hernandez, CSCA. Good evening, President Shaw, board member, Superintendent Enfield, cabinet,

and community. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season with family and friends. And it was great to see so many schools have either school parties or school performances, and the pictures and videos that the district was able to share online was an experience. Um, I was able to attend a few family Christmas performance and wanted to

share that parents are just as nervous or anxious as the kids are. From the sides, you can see the staff members mimicking or d making dance moves or reminding the kids to smile. Um, the staff, all the staff that help put these programs on our true heroes. Soon, some of our classified staff will be attending a PAR educator conference

this year held at CH, excuse me, at the Ontario Convention Center. This conference is to help staff that come into regular contact with some of our special needs students. Many students have triggers to loud noises or elevated voices. The 3-day conference has classes and breakout sessions to train staff to better assist our students. I wanted to thank the

district for continuing to send classified staff members to this awesome conference year after year. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Danny. I was chuckling about the smiling and because I just saw my niec's performance in the same thing. The adults were doing everything and the little girls were just, you know, doing their ballerina stuff. But cute. Thanks for the update.

Um Annette Hatch, >> thank you. Uh good evening, President Shaw, board members, superintendent Dr. Enfield, uh cabinet, and community members. Uh we want to start off by wishing everybody a happy new year. This next half of the year, uh can go pretty pretty fast. So, uh but I know that our administration is ready and excited to face this next part. Uh we are about to

start our testing season in the elementary schools. We have gate testing for grades 6 3 through six followed by ELPAC testing for our English language learners and then state and district testing. Uh we always do well uh but it's a really large undertaking. So we want to thank you say thank you to our administrators and staff for doing such

a great job with that. Um, our district recently went through the Williams visit which went very well and we wanted to ensure to give a shout out to the maintenance team and all the staff at Newman and Liberty elementary schools for ensuring those visits went so smoothly. Elementary students across the district are preparing for the science fair named

in honor of former teacher Tracy Bus. Uh, and the award ceremony will be January 28th, 2026. Uh and then finally, Levi uh HDI Elementary School hosted their AVID uh award ceremony on Tuesday uh just this past Tuesday, the 13th. Uh AVID stands for advancement via individual determination. And because they took into consideration the ESA number four from last year and

the ESPback testing for the 202425 school year, they actually invited the seventh grade students to come back so they could also um receive their awards. So uh kindergarten through second uh second grade earned either the AVID organization award or the AVID collaboration award. And then 3 through six earned an AVID wicker award or an AVID master award. Um 236

I'll repeat that number again. 236 students earned recognition. Um and it was probably the most attended event at Dicki in quite a while. Uh so it was really it was really great to see that the students were excited, the seventh graders were really excited to come back and of course the parents were so supportive. So we want to congratulate

the staff at Dicki and the students for working so hard and to say thank you for um to the parents for all of the support. Thank you. >> Very awesome. Thank you for all those updates. Love it. Um and now we're on to public comments. Patricia, how many requests to speak? Nine. >> Thank you. Board bylaw 9323 meeting

conduct establishes the guidelines and the following process applies. Speakers will be called in the order you registered on the electronic request to speak device. Names are displayed on monitors. Please watch for your name to appear and please line up at the designated numbers behind the mic. Once the recording secretary announces the first name, request to speak will no

longer be accepted. Additionally, government code 54957.9 authorizes removal of an individual or group when a meeting is willfully interrupted and order cannot be restored. Further, Penal Code 403 states in part, "Every person who without authority of law willfully disturbs or breaks up any lawful assembly or meeting not unlawful in its character is guilty of a misdemeanor." Mr. Cruz, can you

please explain the public comment guidelines? Speakers, you have up to three minutes to address the board. You cannot donate your time. One person at the mic at a time. If you read on behalf of an absent person, that will be considered your time. Begin comments when the clock starts. Please refer to board policy 1312.1 for the procedure regarding

complaints against an employee. And lastly, speakers may not approach the dis anytime. The board is in session. Please give any materials you wish distributed to the board to the recording secretary >> Adriana Cardinus Ecley. >> Good evening school board and happy new year to all of you. And here I am again with the same thing. First, I'd like to

congratulate Miss Shaw. She's on the news all the time. uh because uh you are fighting for uh male transgender uh kids not to compete with your daughters and other females for your running for state superintendent from Chino school district. That's awesome. I mean, right? I mean, you know, from here, but but I'm still with the BST Academy. The three

and a half years way when they were ninth grade, I've been asking you not to rank them with the regular high school students. They have to. They must take more AP classes. They have better computers. They have better programs. They get to go to workshops our regular kids don't go to. They use the district budget and they have their own personal

budget in addition for more goodies. That's not right. You're even allowing diamond bar students, high level students to come in and compete. I just saw one of our students the other day working part-time. Uh she's right now senior with these kids. She started on the top 10. She says, "Miss Cardinas, with those 27 kids coming in that are

graduating, I'm now in the 30s. I'm now in the 30s." Imagine this year your freshman are 75 freshman. That means our regular kids are now going to be 75 and under. 75. The PST Academy is a higher level of education program compared to the education program at Gino High School. This arrangement is reminis of segregation that I went through. I went

in Texas in the 40s, the 50s. I graduated 1961. The first uh the uh civil right uh civil rights amendment did not go through until 1964. I don't want to talk to you about what I went through. I made it. I'm here with a master on my own. I don't have money to get a lawyer to make

you understand that you're being unfair. If you look at some of those letters that I sent you before, I told you that I helped in junior high a girl from uh yeah, that went to Ayala and the one to Chino High, the one from Chino High ended up being a valid Victorian. She is at Stanford fully paid for.

I had to rent a car for her parents to go to her brother's education. That's how poor our kids are. You have to see that Chino school district is majority low uh income people. But that they do want to do the EL students counselors together. >> Captain Kesler, >> is that the three minutes? Good evening. My name is Afton Kesler

and I'm a junior at Chino High School where I throw shot and discus. I have dedicated my life to training and competing in multiple different sports, not just track and field. I also compete in strongman and this past year I won America's Strongest Teen and earned a silver medal at the official Strongman Games Teen Junior World Final. I've had

a 4.0 GPA for all of high school and finished last semester with a 4.3. I also participate in National Honor Society. I wake up around 5:00 a.m. every day to attend an early morning Bible study, after which I go to the gym and work out with my personal trainer all before school. With that being said, I hope you all see me as qualified

enough to speak on the topic of protecting girls sports. For any man who transitions to a woman post puberty, there are scientific and biological differences that even hormones cannot change. These include larger hands and feet, a larger heart, more stamina, higher muscle mass, a larger wingspan, and greater lung capacity to name just a few. No matter how much training a woman

does, there is such a large gap in the physical capabilities of the two different genders that it is unfair and disrespectful to let women to to a woman to let bi biological men compete in their spaces. For these reasons, I would like to take them this moment to thank all of you. Thank you for your continued support of women's sports and the

separation of men from those competitions. I know that people who come to these meetings have a tendency to berate our school board, but as someone as a student who actually attends this district and competes in women's events, I would like to thank you for your dedication to fairness and safety for your female athletes despite all of the backlash you get. Please

continue to stand strong and don't ever give up in your efforts to fight for the protection of girls sports. Thank you, Malia Kesler. >> Good evening. Thank you for our time and for your service to our kids. My name is Malia Kesler. I'm the proud mom of three kids. Magnolia, seventh grader, Chun Chino High Junior, and America's

Strongest Teen Girl that you just heard from and an engineering student at ASU. I'm a CPA and I'm in my 15th straight year of volunteering in my kids' schools. Tonight, I'm here to draw attention to the issue of how validictorians are chosen in our district, which is currently based solely on GPA. My suggestion to this board is to change the policy such that

our validictorians are chosen based on characteristics we as a community uphold as the standard of excellence for our students. In my opinion, that should include an excellence in sports and/or the arts, character, community service, and academics. How exactly they are chosen is a discussion for more knowledgeable people than myself, perhaps your high school principles. There could be a selection committee of

admin and teachers at each school. It could include letters of recommendation, a resume, an essay, a list of service hours, or any number of other items. But let's be sure, our district policies are providing intrinsic motivation for our students that result in choices and behavior modeling the best in our community. Because right now, the intrinsic motivation is for students to

drop out of extracurriculars, sign up for as many AP classes as possible, and not spend potential study time serving their community. The honor student who gets an A in ASP, band, or athletic PE for their sport is actually bringing their GPA down and is no longer in contention for validictorian as compared to the student who takes almost all AP

classes and no extracurriculars. I have spent dozens of hours researching AP credit and I can tell you that fully half of them offered don't count for anything in college except for extracurricular credits that you don't need. Obviously, there are some very worthwhile AP classes that can save a ton on tuition and count one for one toward classes that you do need. And

scoring well on several AP tests was part of the reason I was able to get a master's degree in accounting at the age of 21. And yes, we should offer a variety of classes for our students that appeal to a broad range of interests. But to imply through policy that taking as many AP classes as possible is the

end- all beall of education is sending the wrong message to our students. I believe the well-rounded student with high moral character and high achievement in academics and extracurriculars should be the student we uphold as an example to their peers and should be who we recognize at graduation as exemplifying all that we value in Chino Valley. Thank you,

>> Linda Frasier. >> Hi, I'm Linda Frasier and uh pre uh President Shaw, Dr. Enfield, and board wishing you a happy new year. I'm addressing something that was stated last month. President Shaw was called a racist and the rest of the board was bullied. I'm of the belief that they do not they do or this person does not know what a

racist is. A racist is a person who believes in racism. The doctrines one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to another. The word is misused. Bullying the rest of the board is unacceptable. Do we as adults want children not to bully? And yet adults modeling that is Scripture tells us whether you believe

in God or not, no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the of the servants of the Lord and their vindication, declares the Lord. God promises to protect believers, ensuring that any evil plots, attacks, or harmful words directed at them will

ultimately fail. If temporary harm occurs, it is a declaration of divine shielding and ultimate victory for God's people, rooted in faith that ensures their success and vindication. And something I Googled uh that Christians should run for office to get our country back. Thank you. Happy new year, >> Andrew Roma. >> Uh, good evening, President Shaw. Uh, board members, Superintendent Enfield,

and staff. Uh, my name is Andrew Roma, and I'm here to introduce myself as the new liaison to the school district from the fire district. Um I know board members Shaw or Smith there is is leison on with us and so uh he was there last night and um so this is just a formal I've met most of you at all the other

events. So it's this is a a changing of the guard per se. Um so I I won't get up every meeting and speak. I'll just when there's pertinent stuff and one of the things I'd let everybody know here is tomorrow they're doing a uh a charity softball game between Archino Valley Fire and Ontario Fire benefiting both foundations. Um I think most people know

about Make a Child Smile. Um that that event is funded completely through our fire foundation along with uh all the stop the bleed and the AEDs we can put out throughout the city. So anyways, it's uh just uh introducing myself and uh if you guys have any questions, reach out. I'd be more than happy to help. So

have a good evening. Thank you. >> A concerned parent on a consent item. >> Hello. >> Okay. Um I'm a concerned parent. I have two things. Um I think one's on the agenda and one's not. So, uh, first I want to thank all the board for serving our community and for protecting our children. And I want to thank those that

shared before me and the lady that just gave the amazing uh education on uh that topic that people likes to throw that stuff around. It's not really nice. So, uh, first I'm going to share uh an open agenda. Uh, we're new to the area. Uh my son was probably I think he was 10 going on 11 and he was at a K through six. And

I know this isn't a board thing, it's a state thing. But uh my my s came home from school from a K through six and he says, "Dad, you're not going to believe this. They have these machines in the boy's bathroom." And at first it didn't dawn upon me like, "What do you mean, kid?" He says, "Well, you know the

tubular things with the string." And I'm like, "Wow, they got tampon machines in the boy's bathroom. that's real in this area. So, at any rate, we had a little educational piece and we talked about it and you know, uh, of course, you know, it came to my mind, you know, funding has to it already kind of educated my brain and knowing that

the state has to fund the board, so they got to have the machine in the bathroom. And, uh, I have no complaints with the school. the school that my kids attended, the one that he attended and the one that he's at now are both amazing um amazing schools. Um but uh I just found it pretty far out

moving where we came from. Uh I I I guess it has to be in schools that are like third grade and up or something. But at any rate, I just thought I would share that um for my first agenda. But my concern is on my second agenda, and I think that's going to be on a u I'm

going to say number three B3, page 23, fundraising. So, um took my lovely baby, uh to the Scholastic Bookf Fair. I think she was 10 at the time. and uh you know she's shopping and she's getting her books in the little fifth grade section and she got a couple of books and then I says uh baby why don't you get that book

right there special value $5. I'm like it's a $5 book. Go ahead and grab that one. So we get home and and my son says dad why would you get her that book? You know, and [snorts] before I share this, I'll share that in my family, we share that we love everybody. We we don't care who you are, where you came from, what you

do for a living, how much money you got. Uh we love everybody. Um but at any rate, uh we also believe that we have the right to educate our own children on certain topics. So I said, "What do you mean, son?" Well, then he starts pointing out the purple hair and and the pink hair, and I'm like, "So what does

that mean?" So, it turns out I Googled the book and the book is about a lesbian relationship. And I'm like, okay, well, that really doesn't make sense that Scholastic Bookf Fair is it's out there and then they're selling these books to our children at a K through six. So, um I think again, uh me and my children had

the conversation. We love everybody. Um, and uh, but I think my concern as a parent would be possibly monitoring the Scholastic Bookf Fair and what they're doing and what they're promoting and what they're selling to our children because we actually paid for this book. Um, of course, you know, my daughter didn't read it because it's just I don't

feel it's appropriate for her. Um, so I guess what I'm asking the board, um, if it makes any sense, if it's in your scope, that you guys would take a look at that. Uh, makes good sense to me, if it's common sense, then I think it makes sense for everybody. Uh, but, uh, it's a pleasure to see you all. I appreciate

everything that you do in serving our community and protecting our children. And I support you and appreciate you. And thank you. Ana Lane. >> Good evening, President Shaw, board members, and Superintendent Enfield. It's an honor to be in front of you guys. I absolutely stand behind what that guy said and I wholeheartedly agree that um if we're going to to do

something about it that should be written in the librarian's job description to go through Scholastic's scope of books that they're going to put out and make sure that it's child appropriate because that has happened. I am an educator myself. I actually work at another school and their librarian, it's in a private district. their librarian does go through scholastic

books and finds quite a bit of inappropriate stuff. So, that is something to think about. Um, tonight I'm actually here to speak strongly against AB495. I wanted to let you guys know I'm in full support of what you guys are doing to tighten down regulations and safeguard our kids. um AB495 as written, it creates this dangerous ambiguity by

allowing non-parental adults to assume authority over a child without sufficient verification or parental consent. Any process that allows a child to be released without direct parent verification opens the door to mistakes, coercion, or exploitation. If a policy cannot guarantee parental knowledge and consent, it does not belong in schools. I support this board's efforts to close loopholes, require strict verification,

mandate parent contact, and document every release attempt. These safeguards are not excessive. They are necessary. If anything, I believe the standard should be higher, not lower, when a child is removed from school custody. Children deserve the highest level of protection we can provide. And I want to thank you board members for taking student safety seriously. I want to

thank you for taking parent concerns seriously. And I'm very proud to be part of this district and have my child coming here. Thank you. [applause] >> Case case. >> Hi everyone. Happy New Year. Um I just wanted to thank everyone for the hard work they're doing. I came here two months ago in November and had uh raised

an issue about um assistant principles and I heard recently that you guys are in the process of rehiring uh assistant principles. So as a parent feels nice to be heard. Feels nice to um have a board that uh is looking out for the safety of the kids. I also heard that there was a possible um ICE incident at a middle

school in our district and uh I know other districts have some kind of notification policy or notification process and uh wherever you stand uh on the side of ICE um as a parent. I think every parent wants to know what's going on in their schools uh be alerted to any potential issues and um if there's any action they need to take. So, if the

board can look into what can be done just to notify parents that there's an issue going on, uh, that would be great. Other than that, thanks and keep up the good work. >> Thank you. Um, just for a point of information, if ICE does come onto our campuses, parents would be notified. There hasn't been any active incidents.

There isn't any active incidents and we are told that they don't have any plans to come on campus. But trust me, I'm all for parental notification. So if it were to happen, I'm sure staff would follow the law and inform parents. So I would just want to make sure that everybody has that peace in knowing that please

ignore the noise and all the drama online. I see it myself because immediately I'll go to him and ask is this happening? And of course it's not. And even though we know it's the law that they don't just go, you know, going on each campus, just know that if it does happen, parents will be notified. So thank you for that. And 495. Um, just

for clarification as well, we are very active ensuring that the loopholes are closed here. It just breaks my heart the rest of the kids in the state aren't protected the way that our kids are. But thank you for bringing that to our attention. Thank you to our speakers. U, we listen to you. We take it to an

account and um, we appreciate all your voices tonight. Um, so thank you again and um, we appreciate that. So now we're on to changes and deletions. Uh, Patricia, there any changes or deletions? Thank you very much. We're now on to our only action item and that is 2A1 proclamation for National School Counseling Week February uh 2nd through

6, 2026. Recommends the board of education adopt the proclamation for National School Counseling Week February 2nd through the 6 on 2026. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Mr. N. May I have a second? Thank you, Mr. Cervantes. Any comments, questions, or discussions? Do they use your machines? >> Okay, seeing that there's not, I'll just acknowledge that our counselors work

very hard and we're grateful for them and we thank thank them for all their work. And I know PTO's are are around our campuses making sure that they are acknowledged. And I just ask parents, reach out to your counselors and tell them thank you. I know my daughter's counselor, she plays a tremendous role in my daughter's life and my previous

daughter who attended here. So, thank you to all of our counselors for all the hard work that you continue to do. And with nothing um no other board member comments that I see, we will go ahead and register your vote, board members and preferential. Thank you. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. That concludes action

items. Okay, now we're on to consent. Mr. Cruz, do you have a comment? Okay, now we're on to consent. Um, board members, if you have any items to pull, please indicate so on your monitors now. Seeing no polls for any consent items, may I have a motion to move? Thank you, Mr. Ner. And then may thank you, Mr. Cervantes, for your second.

and preferential board members, please register your vote. Preferential. Okay, thank you. Waiting for one more. There we go. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero and preferential vote. Voting yes. We're now on to information items. Tonight we have Scott Bradock or Shy. Do we have Scott? I I thought I saw you. Um from I Bailey presenting the independent

auditor's report. The report is presented to our board members. Are there any comments, questions on the report or any information before we move? Are we going to have him present? Do you make All right. Good evening. My name is Scott Bradic and I'm a manager with ID Bailey, the district's external auditors. And I'll be presenting uh both the

district's um audited financial statements for 2425 as well as the financial and performance audit report for the district's building fund for 2425. Um I'll start with the district's audit report, which is the larger of the two reports that were provided. And um there there's a lot of information in this report, but to keep this presentation somewhat condensed, I'd like to focus uh

primarily on page 103, which is the summary of auditor's results page. And as the name of this page would suggest, this page uh summarizes the audit. There's three sections on this page, which are the financial statement section, the federal awards section, and the state compliance section. We issue audit opinions in relation to each of these areas um of the different types of

opinions that we can issue. An unmodified opinion is essentially a clean audit opinion. So if you see that term unmodified on this page, that's what that term means. So I'll begin with the financial statement section and we issued an unmodified or a clean opinion. We had uh no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies identified and no instances of non-compliance. Uh so a

very clean audit in relation to the financial statements. The next section is the federal award section. Um the district receives and expends money through various federal sources each year and we're required to audit certain federal programs each year. for 2425. We audited the child nutrition cluster as well as title 2 part A. Um through our audit of those

programs, we didn't identify any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies. We issued an unmodified opinion. So again, a very clean audit in relation to the district's federal awards. The last section is the state compliance section. Um, similar to federal compliance, the district receives funds through various state sources and has to comply with various state compliance requirements each year. Uh, and again,

we issued a a an unmodified opinion in relation to the district state awards. No material weaknesses and no significant deficiencies were identified. So, overall very clean audit. Um the next report is the district's financial and performance audit report in relation to the building fund measure G. There's two sections to this report. The first is uh the financial audit

which is essentially just an audit of the financial information reported in the building fund. And then the second section is the performance audit uh where we audit expenditures incurred within the building fund to to make sure that they are aligned and in compliance with the bond measure. Um so the first section of the report the financial statement audit um again

was clean. There were no findings identified. And then as far as the second section of the report, the performance audit report, we audited or we sampled transactions totaling approximately $14.4 million of of the total $33 million of expenditures reported in the building fund. And through our audit of those expenditures, we review invoices, POS, contracts, bid documentation to make sure that uh not

only that internal controls are in place, but also that the expenditures are allowable under the bond measure. So through our audit of those expenditures, um no instances of non-compliance were identified, no findings issued, um an unmodified opinion was issued, and again a very clean audit. Very good. Thank you very much. Um, board, are there any comments or

questions? Mr. Cruz, do you have a nothing else? It looks like you kept them speechless. Thank you for doing that. And we just want to acknowledge our staff um for keeping everything in line. I mean, we do have an amazing staff that ensures that our dollars are used wisely and used in the right way. So, we just want to acknowledge that and

thank you for presenting that to the public for transparency. Thank you very much for the report tonight. >> Thank you. >> Very good. Okay. Now, on to board member comments. Mr. Smith. >> All right. So, the uh once again the numbers are speaking for themselves. Thank you very much. Appreciate that the audit came up clean. This is something

to be very proud of um in our district. Um welcome back everyone. Happy New Year everyone's uh Christmas is awesome. The holidays were fantastic. I not much is going on. I was able to attend the fire district meeting last night a little bit. I had to dip out early, but um congratulations to those um celebrating their 10 year anniversary. Fantastic.

And then of course the promotions. So it was nice to be at the the fire district with their their little their little office there. It was really nice. So um I also was able to attend a fantastic student of the month breakfast at Townsen this morning. Um the spread was was it was kind of amazing really how much the the

staff and everything put on a big breakfast. The teachers all got together. um principal and the assistant. So big thank you to principal cloak, assistant principal ananw um Mrs. Manuso and secretary Veronica Munoz uh and of course the amazing teachers that um nominated their students and had fantastic things to say about the kids. Um it was such a

wonderful opportunity to connect with the uh the teachers and staff. And on on those uh along those lines, you know, we we are blessed in this district. And so I just wanted to um say how much that we appreciate the fantastic staff and administration that really go above and beyond in this district. There are times that um you know, I have two kids that

are still in this district. One's in uh one's in color guard and which is a a crazy I mean sometimes she's there till 9:30 10 o'clock at night on a school night but so is the staff right the staff is there working hard um just putting in the hours and the dedication and you know a lot of times the older

generations they talk bad about these younger generations you know I'm very optimistic about this upcoming generation these kids are amazing um sometimes when I compare myself I'm like man I I don't know how I made it compared to these kids. You know, these kids are just going to uh there's a bright future ahead of them. And I just

wanted to, you know, recognize how blessed we are in this this uh in our district and thanks for all the staff and and everyone that assists. Appreciate it. >> Awesome. Thank you, M. Thank you very much, Mr. Smith. Townsen brings back great memories, especially for me being a Townsen. Um the rural were rangers back then. I don't think they changed

it, but uh I was just showing Dr. Enfield I was going through down memory lane and I'll just make it quick, but I found some like old awards. I you probably can't see it, but it's my Townsen trophy for being ASB president and just reminding me like the fun times that we had at Townsen and seeing Cloak

like just make Towns and exciting is is pretty cool. But I got some towns and bands by the way too, so don't be jealous. Um, okay, Mr. Where is it? There we go. Hold on. There you go. >> Yeah. Um, happy new year, uh, everyone. Uh tonight we had uh two parents uh talk about scholastic book sales on campus and

I think um that's a concern that um all of our parents would feel. So uh I'd like to have our staff Dr. Enfield to look into that matter with their parents. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And also um this is the second time we had um adult school teacher um and she's asking for some type of help. So, I would also

like to have our staff talk to her and see exactly what kind of help we could provide for her reaching out to her students at adult school and um we could uh make a progress with her vision and I would really appreciate that. Now LA Unified School District um they're having a hard time right now because of

declining of student enrollments and that is major concern for LA Unified but thank God our our school district is on other side. Matter of fact, we have more students attending or choosing to attend our schools in our school district. And I could say that it's because we have great education in a safe learning environment. by great staffs. Our teachers and our

staff members do give 100% of their time and their effort and nurturing our students and it's showing today. I had a chance to talk to a student named Michael Vasquez who had graduated from Don Mugal High School 10 years ago and he proclaimed that he could never ever forget Chino Valley Unified because of all the things that he have

received. It was the relationships that that he could still remember that gave him the strength where he had many chances that he could drop out from reaching out his goals and in education. But he was able to proceed because of the love of a family in at Chino Valley Unified School District. He was able to not only finish four-year college but

also received master's degree and has a great job right now. and he asked me at tonight's board meeting to talk about our past President Ronald Reagan who happens to be my favorite president by the way. He said, quote, "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go live in German or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot

become a German, Turk or Japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in America and become an American citizen. Welcome to Chino Valley Unified. We are one family. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. No. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cruz. But >> Cardinos, you know, she she burns my heart of what she's saying because you

could tell her passion. She she loves her her children and she's always been like this. I I think I I honestly I don't really I kind of understand, but I really don't. Um maybe um Dr. Maybe I just sit down with you and perhaps you could explain to me um what um what she's trying to um cuz she is correct in

her heart what she's saying. I I just feel it. And so I I just maybe I'll just sit down and talk about um maybe what we can do, how we can help the students. Um so the Williams settlement legislation um there were zero complaints here at Chino Valley. Um 2026 the science fair is on January 28th at Woodrest at Junior

High School. Awards will start at 6:30 p.m. and the project viewing will be at 6 PM. Russ on the 5K will be at February 7, 2026 um 5K run and you know mentioned her ASV presidency. She was she was um two times president at at her middle school. So that's interesting. Board policy 6145.1. The district is committed to providing

all students equal educational opportunity and freedom from discrimination. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Cruz. Mr. Santes on Good evening everybody. Uh thank you for being here and happy new year. It's good to see everybody back. Hopefully those that had to uh you know work every day. Thank you for still coming to work and those that got to take a little time

off. Hope you guys got refreshed and are excited to be back. But you know with the new year everybody talks about being healthy and starting fresh and it's always a good opportunity to reflect and do those things. So some information from the city of Chino. I know uh Mr. Cruz mentioned the run for us is coming up. You know, uh jump on the city of

Chino website and look at all the activities right now. Look at the weather. You would think it was at least mid-spring or early summer with the weather we've had the last couple days. So, it's always a good reason to uh to get outside. It's getting dark a little later. So, look at the activities. They have all kinds of things you can get

involved in. So, uh check that out. And uh always excited to recognize our counselors, any of our staff members for all the hard work they do. So, our counselors being recognized is huge because behind the scenes they do so much proactive work, you know, getting ahead of things when uh because of the relationships they build with the

students, getting to know them, you know, not only setting up all their classroom, you know, and just the different activities they're trying to budget all that, but they get to know them on a personal level and they know what's going on in their heart and in their mind. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you

guys do and and all the incidents that you prevent just by talking and getting the right resources up front to make sure that things are being done. And then, uh, a couple other things real quick that was mentioned tonight. you know, uh, I noticed, you know, how more and more we're starting to really recognize how important it is to be

number one in education, making sure parents are in the loop, all the notifications, all the things that, you know, we've been talking about and fighting for for a long time. I'm starting to see that more and more being appreciated, and it's nice to see that coming on uh from you guys coming in here and speaking up. So, remember,

we're going to continue to fight for those things. We want to be the the best. want to be safe. We want to make sure that uh we're being proactive and always keeping everybody in the loop, especially our parents. So, thank you guys for everything. >> Thank you, Mr. Cervantes. And we have Superintendent Dr. Enfield. >> Well, first of all, I want to wish

everybody a happy new year. I hope everybody had a nice holiday season. Um tonight the uh board recognized our uh counselors for national counselor uh school counselor week and again um I just want to reiterate uh what Mr. Cvantes uh shared our counselors do a phenomenal job in this district. On last Friday I'm on a district committee and

we looked at uh the data from the number of interventions and support that our counselors give across this district and it's astonishing the amount of work that they do to meet with our kids to um to provide interventions for our students. And then when you look at the data and you look at the number of bullying incidents in our district from the last

couple of years that it's keeps reducing down down and down and significantly has came down in this district and and it's a testament to the work that they do. Uh it's a testament to everybody in our district who supports the the work that we do through our PBIS work. But again the you can see in the data how the the

work of our counselors that lead that work how it is impacting our kids in a very positive way. Also the data showed the number of interventions that they have uh in supporting and identifying students of in a risk assessment and sometimes you would think oh those numbers went up that's not a good thing. No, it's actually a very positive thing

because we're identifying when students need help, we're identifying them early and intervening and help reducing the discipline across the district. And again, when we looked at that data on Friday, it was extremely extremely positive data to see that this district is trending in the right direction. And again, I share that because the systems that we have in place in our district

are the platinum because people always platinum, but that means something. It means we have really, really, really strong systems within our district to support students and our counselors are the ones that lead the the work across our district. And again, it's nice to be able to recognize them. And with that, I'll close my comments for the night.

>> Awesome. Thank you, Dr. Enfield. We appreciate you um showing that. I too um love to see all the different things that our district is doing to ensure the um safety of our kids. So, thank you very much and thank you to our staff. Thank you to our teachers. Um again, I just want to acknowledge and thank you

our thank you. Thank you to our speakers for bringing up stuff. A lot of times we may not know of something or maybe even not know to acknowledge something. um to sit with one of our students, um Miss Kesler, she left, but just to hear how she's the strong woman and to hear all her hard work and dedication and

maintain a 4.0, I think it's pretty darn rad. And um we just continue to support those girls and ensure that they have their rights and safety. And I I'm excited about that because it is very disturbing when I listened to the congressional hearing um for Title N a few days ago. I mean, I have this cool ring now, and it tells you what your

blood pressure and your stress is, which I probably shouldn't have that ring, but I can tell you the ring was telling me to calm down. Um, because I was listening to an ACLU attorney, and I don't know if you guys remember ACLU, um, they harassed us pretty aggressively during the parent notification situation. And you listen to that

attorney and he was literally in Supreme Court. I mean, Supreme Court is the highest court of the land. That's like to me like something really beautiful that you know we have a blessing of in the United States. And with it being the highest court of the land and listening before these judges, this attorney say, and what I'm going to say, I I mean

it it angers me. He was saying that boys go through the same puberty as girls physically and hormonally. Are we joking? Like really? Um he also refused to define what a woman is. I'm glad here in Chino Valley we define what women and men are and we don't allow blurred lines. And um then you saw the next I think it was that same day later

in that afternoon the congressional hearing and a doctor an OBGYn doctor. Let's be clear and think most of us know what an OBGYn doctor is. I mean obviously the men don't go see her but it's a woman a doctor made for us women. and she refused to answer if men can get pregnant. I mean, come on. This is at

the highest courts and in a congressional hearing, this is laid before them. And then you look at California and people say it's a lost cause. And I am exactly uh screaming the opposite because we here in California, we here in Chino Valley have held the floodgates of that insanity from reaching our children as much as we can, right? And

it's not to say that it's not a daily battle. Not to say that we don't have crazy insane people coming after us and suing us for basic biology and acknowledging that and protecting that and basic constitutional rights of parents and then also our females in their sports. Um, but with that said, I know I seen some smirks when I said

about that the doctor not acknowledging and those things. It's funny to the sense like I can't even believe we're we're saying this out loud and this is like our reality. Like what what in the heck? It just reminds me every day why why we do what we do, why every day we have great people working in our

district. And I will tell you, as I seen our governor celebrate some districts from moving from the bottom and barely up, let's be honest, they also move the standards. You can't even define what a male and female is. You're teaching those. You're pushing that in curriculum. I'm not lying. Go look it up. It's legislated to push all this weird ideology into the

curriculum. But you have districts like ours that stand out and we continue to push kids in the right direction and give them um you know pathways for success that excites me more than anything because I can tell you even with technical career I believe it's technical career month or it's coming up but I sit on um Baldy View RO and when

you hear we sit I sit on that just so you guys know with three other districts so it's four districts and we um push pathways for students to take pathways and if they're not four year bound or maybe they're even four year bound. It'll get them certificated like our pharmacist and they're working at 18 making a really good wage in a pharmacy

like CVS. I can't even explain all the the cool things that we get to hear about student success. But even if they're not and they want to go into a trade or they want to be a firefighter like my own daughter [snorts] um or you know another trade or plumber or something, you have these pathways that we offer these students and to hear

those classes are a lot of them are becoming um having a weight list. That's awesome. That's amazing. But also to hear in the same breath it's hard to get funding for things like that. That sucks because we're funding weird stuff in California. Well, we're not, but they are. Um, but again, continue to fight the good fight. Chino Valley, because I

say Chino Valley because it's Ontario. Don't let's not forget our Ontario people. Um, our Chino and Chino Hills. You guys are amazing. I am so glad to be linked arms with you. I'm excited about this um, you know, the ending of the school year. our kids are going to finish strong. We're going to continue to allow them to have opportunities. And

I just pray and hope that um they show us that they're going to be strong leaders. I mean, to my left is sitting one of them. And I keep telling him, "One day you're going to be the president of the United States, and I better be able to be at some point helping and serving you as you serve the

country." And I I laugh, but I I really think that's achievable for this young man to my left. But keep fighting the good fight. I was um having a goal to get us out of here and get you to your families um sooner than later. So, I will end this with just excitement that we are on the right path for our

children. And I end this uh regular board of education meeting at 7:07 p.m.